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Yep, I got this rejection when I made this tipping app (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tip-69/id1460610078 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tip-69/id1460610078). I

Yep, I got this rejection when I made this tipping app (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tip-69/id1460610078 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tip-69/id1460610078). I went on to add OCR detection for receipts so you don't have to type in the amount, I added more tipping modes, I added split bill functionality, and eventually added an entire social network with the ability to share your receipt for the world to see, like or comment on. Must have spent months trying to get approved by Apple. I'd rather no one ask me why.

ece 4y ago
You have IAPs.
mafen 4y ago
Why?
- Jonovono 4y ago
  Once you set your mind to something you gotta see it through.
Aloha 4y ago
Huh, that looks useful for me!
- Jonovono 4y ago
  That's what I tried telling them! "Apple, yes, there is lots of tipping apps. But do any easily tell you what to tip so your bill total ends in something dumb like 69? no!"
alin23 4y ago
Yep, the social network function is also my next go-to for getting this app accepted. Glad to hear it at least worked for someone, gives me hope. I'm thinking of adding an IRC client so that people that go to the same festival can talk about it in the days before the event, but it's all anonymous and ephemeral so I don't get into GDPR and privacy territory.
- SturgeonsLaw 4y ago
  > I'm thinking of adding an IRC client so that people that go to the same festival can talk about it in the days before the event, but it's all anonymous and ephemeral so I don't get into GDPR and privacy territory. That's a really cool idea. One of the more unfortunate side effects of this curated feed filter bubble people find themselves isolated into, is the demise of the shared experience. Festivals (and other real life events) are the last bastion of shared experience, and you've found a good way to translate that to the digital realm.
jaywalk 4y ago
I have no love for Apple's walled-garden, and I absolutely appreciate 69 jokes, but this app is stupid.
- skrtskrt 4y ago
  the first apps I remember on iOS were a beer glass that poured out beer when you tipped the phone, and a lightsaber app that made sheeewwwww sounds when you swung the phone around. We loved them It's ok to make stupid apps as long as you're not scamming. The oh-so-serious nature of the current online experience sucks
  - jaywalk 4y ago
    I have fond memories of the beer glass app. I showed it off numerous times after I got my first iPhone In my ideal world, Apple wouldn't have a walled-garden at all. But if they will, then there needs to be a certain bar for apps to meet to be included. And to be clear, there are plenty of existing apps that don't meet such a bar. But Tip 69 definitely doesn't.
    - Apocryphon 4y ago
      Let the users decide. Actually, there's an interesting notion that could exist on both the official App Store, or in a hypothetical non-Apple one: cull apps that have too low usage activity. But give them a fair shake by attracting attention to them, then seeing what users make of them. And when you do remove low-to-nil use apps, don't remove their listings, keep them as archived entries that users can try to vote back to life. Obviously, a lot of these mechanisms would be exploited by bots and the like, because the internet just can't have fun experimental interactivity anymore. Doesn't scale.
      - jaywalk 4y ago
        If we could have nice things, I absolutely agree.
  - guiambros 4y ago
CharlesW 4y ago
I'm honestly blown away that Apple approved an app to suggest "funny" tip amounts in a thread where we're complaining that that Apple's standards are too high.
- Apocryphon 4y ago
  It's not hard to comprehend. Apple has a huge pool of apps to deal with. Enforcement is inconsistent. There are apps that are being overpoliced while bait-and-switch scams are floating to the top of the ratings. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31005708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31005708
  - CharlesW 4y ago
    100%. Humans and processes are fallible.
    - 29083011397778 4y ago
      And algorithms have no humanity. Between Google Play's automated rejection, and Apple's people rejecting you manually, somehow neither works quite as well as it should. For the record, I will continue to point to this as an argument in favour of being able to load ones own software without needing approval from a third party.

ece 4y ago

You have IAPs.

mafen 4y ago

Why?

Jonovono 4y ago
Once you set your mind to something you gotta see it through.

Aloha 4y ago

Huh, that looks useful for me!

Jonovono 4y ago
That's what I tried telling them! "Apple, yes, there is lots of tipping apps. But do any easily tell you what to tip so your bill total ends in something dumb like 69? no!"

alin23 4y ago

Yep, the social network function is also my next go-to for getting this app accepted. Glad to hear it at least worked for someone, gives me hope. I'm thinking of adding an IRC client so that people that go to the same festival can talk about it in the days before the event, but it's all anonymous and ephemeral so I don't get into GDPR and privacy territory.

SturgeonsLaw 4y ago
> I'm thinking of adding an IRC client so that people that go to the same festival can talk about it in the days before the event, but it's all anonymous and ephemeral so I don't get into GDPR and privacy territory. That's a really cool idea. One of the more unfortunate side effects of this curated feed filter bubble people find themselves isolated into, is the demise of the shared experience. Festivals (and other real life events) are the last bastion of shared experience, and you've found a good way to translate that to the digital realm.

jaywalk 4y ago

I have no love for Apple's walled-garden, and I absolutely appreciate 69 jokes, but this app is stupid.

skrtskrt 4y ago
the first apps I remember on iOS were a beer glass that poured out beer when you tipped the phone, and a lightsaber app that made sheeewwwww sounds when you swung the phone around. We loved them It's ok to make stupid apps as long as you're not scamming. The oh-so-serious nature of the current online experience sucks
- jaywalk 4y ago
  I have fond memories of the beer glass app. I showed it off numerous times after I got my first iPhone In my ideal world, Apple wouldn't have a walled-garden at all. But if they will, then there needs to be a certain bar for apps to meet to be included. And to be clear, there are plenty of existing apps that don't meet such a bar. But Tip 69 definitely doesn't.
  - Apocryphon 4y ago
    Let the users decide. Actually, there's an interesting notion that could exist on both the official App Store, or in a hypothetical non-Apple one: cull apps that have too low usage activity. But give them a fair shake by attracting attention to them, then seeing what users make of them. And when you do remove low-to-nil use apps, don't remove their listings, keep them as archived entries that users can try to vote back to life. Obviously, a lot of these mechanisms would be exploited by bots and the like, because the internet just can't have fun experimental interactivity anymore. Doesn't scale.
    - jaywalk 4y ago
      If we could have nice things, I absolutely agree.
- guiambros 4y ago

CharlesW 4y ago

I'm honestly blown away that Apple approved an app to suggest "funny" tip amounts in a thread where we're complaining that that Apple's standards are too high.

Apocryphon 4y ago
It's not hard to comprehend. Apple has a huge pool of apps to deal with. Enforcement is inconsistent. There are apps that are being overpoliced while bait-and-switch scams are floating to the top of the ratings. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31005708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31005708
- CharlesW 4y ago
  100%. Humans and processes are fallible.
  - 29083011397778 4y ago
    And algorithms have no humanity. Between Google Play's automated rejection, and Apple's people rejecting you manually, somehow neither works quite as well as it should. For the record, I will continue to point to this as an argument in favour of being able to load ones own software without needing approval from a third party.